Notes and Stuff

Notes from a day where I was feeling especially glad to be alive .....

• Is it sad when one of a person's top five most anticipated days during a year is the NBA trade deadline? Or the day that pitchers and catchers report? A friend asked me to ask. 
• My fortune cookie: "You will soon receive a letter from a loved one."  .... I'll be checking the mailbox daily. 
• I took a leap of faith tonight. For the first time in at least the last twenty years, I stuck my feet into my slippers, without checking first for the presence of spiders.
• Horrific feeling when the tonearm escapes your grip and skates uncontrollably across the entire surface of a vinyl record. It's a sign of aging.
• I've probably mentioned this once or twice before but recording collecting pet peeve number one: Chewed up, ripped and/or torn spines and edges of the record cover. Why do people let their dogs and kids handle their records? Why do they obviously drive their cars back and forth over their records? It just pissess me off royally when I find a record with the sleeve all torn to hell. Have a little f'ing respect!! And even more so when the store owners attempt to hide the damage with plastic sleeves.